This is a very exciting development - content-rich phonics and language comprehension books - including spelling word banks.

Phonics International Ltd is working in association with Raintree to produce a streamlined series of 9 Pupil Books (accompanying Teacher Books will also be available) with supplementary resources on a USB Stick.

Here's a little 'taster' - video footage of a Year One class trialling the resources when they were in development:

I've developed a thread dedicated to the No Nonsense Phonics Skills Starter Kit which now includes an audio-video with information that is sufficiently detailed to be classed as 'training' for use in the resources, see here:

You can now go straight to this page on my phonicsintervention.org website where there is a full description of the 'No Nonsense Phonics Skills' resources via the video plus PowerPoints for information and training - including an audio version of my information PowerPoint and a PowerPoint designed by an Assistant Headteacher, Jamie Hallums, in a school in London:

I'm so pleased to say that a number of schools are using both the Phonics International resources and the No Nonsense Phonics Skills resources in a complementary way - and some schools have moved on from using No Nonsense Phonics Skills as intervention resources (for special needs and/or targeted support) and are now adopting it for whole school use as the books proved to be so effective with the slower-to-learn children!_________________Debbie Hepplewhite